单词 | bottle gourd |
释义 | > as lemmasbottle gourd bottle gourd n. a bottle-shaped gourd, esp. Lagenaria siceraria, whose variably-shaped fruit can have the form of a bottle; also called calabash. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > plants, nuts, seeds, or fruits used as beads or vessels > [noun] > calabash fruit calabash1596 bottle gourd1597 calabash fruit1707 jicara1859 snuff-box gourd1884 trumpet-gourd1884 snuff-gourd1901 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 777 (caption) Cucurbita lagenaria. Bottle Gourdes. 1861 A. Pratt Flowering Plants & Ferns Great Brit. II. 309 The bottle-gourds (Lagenaria)..being shaped like flasks. 2001 M. Hughes et al. World Food: India 168 A variety of baris..are combined with curried vegetables like eggplant and bottle gourd. < as lemmas |
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